People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

Crisis doesn't create character; it reveals it.

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

I have no satisfaction in formulas unless I feel their numerical magnitude.

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.